Proverbs 8:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָבִ֣ינוּ פְתָאיִ֣ם עָרְמָ֑ה וּ֝כְסִילִ֗ים הָבִ֥ינוּ לֵֽב׃

Transliteration

hābînû pᵊtāʾyim ʿormâ, and-kᵊsîlîm hābînû lēb

Grammar Details

• *hābînû*: hiphil imperative masculine plural - understand/perceive/learn
• *pᵊtāʾyim*: masculine plural noun - simple ones/naive
• *ʿormâ*: feminine singular noun - prudence/shrewdness
• *kᵊsîlîm*: masculine plural noun - fools
• *lēb*: masculine singular noun - heart/mind/understanding

Word Meanings

• *pᵊtāʾyim*: simple ones/naive/inexperienced
• *ʿormâ*: prudence/shrewdness/craftiness/wisdom
• *kᵊsîlîm*: fools/stupid ones
• *lēb*: heart/mind/understanding/inner person

Referenced Verses

• Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
• Prov 1:4 : 4 To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion:
• Rev 3:17-18 : 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked: 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.
• Ps 19:7 : 7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.
• Ps 94:8 : 8 Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
• Prov 9:4 : 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
• Isa 42:13 : 13 Jehovah will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up [his] zeal like a man of war: he will cry, yea, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.
• Isa 55:1-3 : 1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
• 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, [yea] and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.